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From: pector@ihuxw.UUCP (Scott W. Pector)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: re: Common Female Ancestor
Message-ID: <579@ihuxw.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Nov-83 18:56:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 10 18:56:39 1983
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It's nice to know now that I can blame a long forgotten branch of the
family for turning out really nasty people, and do it conveniently
with the aid of science.  Unfortunately, I guess this means that
such individuals are more closely related to me than I thought before
(i.e., we had a common ancestor 500,000 years ago rather than 5 million
years ago), and consequently I should be against the death penalty since
they are closer in a family way to me.

I remember a poster from the 1860s or 1870s showing Mark Twain crying
in Palestine over his long lost relative Adam.  He commented he always
felt that way about dead members of the family, particularly the only
members who did anything worthy of note.

						Scott Pector